My Notepad For Communicating Various Things To And From You People

Why I Won’t Use Google Drive, and Neither Should You

“When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.

The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This licence continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing that you have added to Google Maps).”

So, if my company uploads any of our IP, Google will have the right to create a derivitive work, i.e. a product or service, from our IP. It would effectively belong to them as well.

Yes, I did leave that off, as it has no bearing on the part that grants Google a perpetual license to create derivative works from your IP. Sure, you still own it, but Google can do what it wants with it too. If you feel comfortable with that, by all means, go ahead and use Google Drive.